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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

— Patti Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

— Shawn Mendes

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

— Boyd Holbrook

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

— Gunter Grass

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

— Russell Banks

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.

— Kevin Henkes

✗Opposing Perspectives

My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.

— Katherine Dunn

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

— Simon Van Booy